Young professional choreographers, dancers,
composers and lighting designers are invited to answer the call for
applications to participate in the third edition of the Crossings International
Artistic Workshop.
Crossings #3 will take place in Cape Town
from November 8 to 17 2013, and is hosted by the University of Cape Town’s
Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA), Baxter Theatre
Centre and School of Dance with the support of Institut français and the French
Institute of South Africa.
The Crossings concept is unique in that the
workshop gives participants the opportunity to collaborate and explore new
creative horizons during ten days under the supervision of a team of
established, international artists. “It’s not about your latest work, it’s
about your latest experiment,” says Michel Kelemenis, French choreographer and
founder of Crossings.
This year’s facilitators are:
choreographers Germaine Acogny (Senegal) and Vincent Mantsoe (South Africa),
lighting designer Floriaan Ganzevoort (Holland) and composer James Webb (South
Africa).
With international collaboration at the
core of the project’s success, 21 young international artists will be selected
to participate in Crossings #3: Three choreographers (of whom one must be of
South African nationality), three composers (of whom one must be of South
African nationality), three South African lighting designers and 12 dancers (of
whom six must be of South African nationality). Tuition fees, meals and
accommodation are included, allowing artists to freely and fully dedicate
themselves to the training.
Conceived by French choreographer Michel
Kelemenis, the two first editions of Crossings took place in 2010 and 2011 in
Johannesburg at the Dance Factory, the Dance Forum, Moving into Dance Mophatong
and Vuyani Dance Theatre. Three years after the initial edition of Crossings,
international connections between previous participants are still flourishing.
Applications for Crossings #3 should be
submitted electronically to angelique@ifas.org.za by August 8, 2013, by 18h00
(GMT+2).
The call for applications, registration
form and application requirements are available on www.ifas.org.za and
www.gipca.uct.ac.za/call-for-applications-crossings-international-artistic-workshop
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